Lead Quant Software Engineer

Lead Quant Software Engineer

11 Nov 2024
Massachusetts, Boston, 02109 Boston USA

Lead Quant Software Engineer

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job summary:

Our appetite for technology is insatiable. We recognize that the world is full of fascinating questions that will impact the future of companies, economies, financial markets, and entire industries. We want you to help us find answers to these questions by building and evolving our innovative, industry leading, technology platform. We are seeking qualified candidates to join our evolving and expanding technology team. Together, you will not only dream up solutions to today's investment challenges, but you will build them in order to see real-life results. Technology needs are advancing, and this level of complexity requires a highly sophisticated well-managed technology platform that is built by people like you. This is your chance to build something incredible. This position is within our Information Technology team.


THE ROLE

As part of continued growth, a new opportunity has arisen for a Quantitative Software Engineer. As a member of the Mosaic Technology team, this individual will be responsible for solutions delivery for the Portfolio Management team. This is an ideal opportunity for an IT professional to apply business and/or technical skills to enable investment processes to become more effective.


Responsibilities include:

- Leading the delivery of high-quality business solutions using the latest in cloud technologies.

- Working directly with investors to create quantitative solutions.

- Interacting with investment professionals at all levels of the organization in order to proactively identify opportunities for new/improved systems to support investment processes.

- Performing gap analysis between investment processes and existing systems.

- Interfacing and coordinating with the broad Information Technology teams to ensure successful delivery.

- Participating directly in the technical development of investment tools.


RESPONSIBILITIES

- Lead the delivery of high-quality business solutions, including participating in architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support

- Work with business teams, project managers, and systems analysts to review and qualify business requirements, functional specifications, use-cases, and test plans

- Design, prototype and code new software components and applications based on functional specifications across the full stack - services, web and mobile clients, infrastructure and back-end

- Coordinate with analyst teams and vendors to execute test plans and provide support during user acceptance testing

- Modify and enhance existing systems to incorporate new functionality and to optimize them for performance

- Author technical design and support documentation


QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with implementing models for securities, risk, attribution, scenario analysis and portfolio optimization or equivalent

- experience required.

- Five years of relevant design and development experience within the financial industry preferred but not required.

- Demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills gained through experience in a relevant financial domain (i.e., business technical understanding of fixed income and/or derivatives securities, foreign exchange, money markets etc.)

- Experience with, and a demonstrated understanding of, modern software development and testing methodologies such as Artifactory, GIT, and Jenkins CI.

- Experience developing complex applications using, Java, Python, JavaScript/NodeJS or related technologies.

- Familiarity with web applications and services using REST, HTML5, CSS, and modern UI frameworks such as Angular and React.

- Intermediate level expertise with SQL and Excel VBA/C# preferred.

- Experience developing application with cloud technologies such as AWS desired.

- Degree in Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or directly related field, with good mathematical acumen.

- Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communications skills.

- Be willing and able to work both independently and as part of a team, in an energetic, fast-paced, business-critical environment.

- Demonstrate previous ability to deliver high quality solutions.

location: Boston, Massachusetts

job type: Contract

salary: $70 - 80 per hour

work hours: 8am to 4pm

education: Bachelors



responsibilities:

Responsibilities include:

- Leading the delivery of high-quality business solutions using the latest in cloud technologies.

- Working directly with investors to create quantitative solutions.

- Interacting with investment professionals at all levels of the organization in order to proactively identify opportunities for new/improved systems to support investment processes.

- Performing gap analysis between investment processes and existing systems.

- Interfacing and coordinating with the broad Information Technology teams to ensure successful delivery.

- Participating directly in the technical development of investment tools.






qualifications:


  • Experience level: Experienced
  • Education: Bachelors


skills:
  • Jenkins
  • GIT
  • Artifactory



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  • Date
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